Yu Shu

Senior Software Engineer

Santa Clara, California, United States7 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Expert in multi-cloud infrastructure management.
Proven track record in high-scale distributed systems.
Strong background in cloud computing and software development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Networking.

Contact

yu.shu@ysmiles.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingInfrastructure As CodeDistributed SystemsSoftware Development

Other Skills

Claude CodeTerraformAmazon Web Services (AWS)Microsoft AzureGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Traffic EngineeringMulti-Cloud InfrastructureReliability & ObservabilityJavaHigh-Scale Distributed SystemsSeamless Media TransferObservability & TracingNetwork Re-ArchitecturePrivacy EngineeringNode.js

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Experience

7 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Confluent

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer II

Promoted

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Cloud Infrastructure & Platform (CIP) - Traffic Data Plane Team
Traffic Engineering: Designing and implementing customized Envoy Proxy routing solutions to support both North-South (customer to cloud) and East-West (internal service-to-service) connectivity.
Multi-Cloud Infrastructure: Managing Data Plane infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
Reliability & Observability: Developing data path health monitoring systems that scale to support thousands of logical cluster endpoints per region for Confluent Cloud / Kafka.

Claude CodeTerraformAmazon Web Services (AWS)Microsoft AzureGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Cloud Computing+1

Senior Software Engineer

May 2022 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

TerraformAmazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud Computing

Amazon lab126

Software Development Engineer

May 2020 – May 2022 · 2 yrs · Sunnyvale, California, United States

Alexa Music
High-Scale Distributed Systems: Maintained and optimized Tier-1 backend services supporting global playback, handling peak loads of 100k+ QPS during high-traffic holiday events with strict latency SLAs.
Seamless Media Transfer: Engineered the backend logic for cross-device playback control (moving active streams from Room A to Room B). Designed the event-driven architecture to consume voice signals and execute state transitions across the Alexa ecosystem.
Observability & Tracing: Implemented a distributed tracing framework (unique tracking IDs) to correlate requests across microservices, significantly improving debuggability for complex, multi-device user flows.
Alexa Location Service
Network Re-Architecture: Redesigned the service's networking layer to implement advanced load balancing, increasing throughput capacity and fault tolerance for geospatial queries.
Privacy Engineering: Architected and onboarded a critical privacy compliance component to ensure the secure handling and anonymization of sensitive user location data.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)JavaDistributed Systems

F5 networks

2 roles

Software Engineer II

Promoted

Oct 2019 – May 2020 · 7 mos

SSL Orchestrator (SSLO) Team
Control Plane Engineering: Developed the Node.js middleware for the SSLO Guided Configuration, designing the translation logic that converts high-level user intent (JSON) into complex, low-level BIG-IP network policies.
Encrypted Traffic Management: Enabled transparent proxying and SSL/TLS visibility (up to Layer 7) for enterprise security inspection, supporting mission-critical deployments for global ISPs and financial institutions.
Cross-Layer Debugging: Collaborated closely with the Data Plane team to troubleshoot and resolve complex connectivity failures, distinguishing between configuration drift and lower-level data path anomalies.

Node.jsSoftware Development